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SPECIFICATION forming* pari'. Of Letters Patent No. 618,410, dated January 31,1899. Application filed February l, 1897. Serial No. 621,578. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whowt it may concern.:

Be it known that I, BYRON B. GOLDSMITH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Cards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to improvements in display-cards for lead-pencils, penholders, vials, and other articles; and its objects are to facilitate the assembling of the articles on the cards and their removal therefrom, to prevent the finish of the articles from being marred by the fastening devices, and to provide a means whereby the cards may be stacked for shipment without additional means interposed between the cards for protecting the articles.

It has been customaryheretofore to secure pencils, penholders, and other articles to display-cards by means of metal fasteners or wire, cord, or elastic loops, which, in order to hold the articles securely, were made to bind them with considerable force. It has been found difiicult, and consequently costly, to assemble the articles on suchcards, and it is also difficult to replace an article when for any cause it has been removed. Also with such display-cards the fastening devices, necessarily binding the articles with considerable force, produce an unsightly mark upon the finish where they touch the articles and where they force the latter against the display card. For this reason pencils, penholders, and the like, when mounted upon display-cards in the manner heretofore practiced, never look perfect when removed from the cards for sale. These Objections I have obviated by my invention, which consists in making the fastening devices, preferably in the form of loops, of such large size that the articles may be inserted lengthwise into them or be removed from them with the greatest ease, while no pressure whatever is brought to bear upon the said articles, so that their perfection of finish is in no manner marred. In order to prevent the articles from moving longitudinally and so escaping from the fastening devices, I arrange a stop at each end of the series of articles on acard; but in order to readily assemble the articles or to remove or replace one or more of them the stop at one end of the series is made removable.

Each stop may be coextensive with a whole tent than the articles on the card.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of a displaycard with penholders thereon constructed in accordance with my invention with some of the parts removed. Fig. 2 is a ciosssection of the same, and Figs. 3 to 8 are detail Views and views of modifications of details.-

Referring to the drawings, and more particularly to Figs. l and 2, there is shown a rectangular card l, which in practice is usually made of cardboard; but any othershape may be adopted and .any other suitable material may be used.

In the drawings I have shown one form of display-card adapted to carry one dozen penholders 2, arranged parallel to each other. The card is perforated to form two series of slots 3 4, one series near one side of the card and the other series near the other side of the card, the slots 4. being of less length than the slots 3. Through the slots 3 there project U shaped wire loops 5, and through the slots 4. there project other and smaller U-shaped loops Each loop 5 and 6 has the free ends of both legs'bent opposite at right angles, as shown at 7, Fig. 3, to constitute stops engaging the under side of the card at the ends. of'

`The two series of slots 3 4L are so arranged that the larger loops 5 surround the penholders at the ferrule end and the smaller loops 6 surround the penholders near the small end, while the swell of the penholders rests loo on the card; but the penholders are only loosely held in place by the loops, and consequently their finish is not marred, as is the case were the holding devices bind the penholders rmly in place.

The penholders are locked against lengthwise movement by two stops S 9, formed in this instance as prismatic strips, one of them, 8, being permanently fixed to the card adjacent and parallel to the slots 4, while the other stop 9 is removably held to the card adjacent to the slots 3, and the distance between these two stops is slightly greater than or approximately the same as the length of a penholder. These stops may be of the shape shown or of any other suitable shape, and they may be solid, as shown in Fig. 2, orhollow, as shown in Fig. 7, in which latter case they may be made of cardboard.

The stop 9 is attached to the card by two loops 10 of elastic cord, one near each end of the stop, so that the. said loops may be slipped over the ends of the stop either to secure it in place or for the purpose of .removing it. It Will of course be understood that I may attach the stop 9 in otherways to the card so that it may be readily removed in order that the penholders may be put upon or taken from the card.

The two stops 8 and 9 are made of such height above the face of the card that a second card placed upon the rst Will be supported by the stops out of contact With the penholders or other articles on the card beloW.`

By this means the cards may be stacked for shipment Without the articles being subjected to pressure or chaiing from the overlying cards, and being therefore saved from injury from such cause will be received in perfect condition by the purchaser, instead of being more or less damaged in transit, as heretofore.

Instead of forming slots 3 et for the loops 5 6 I may provide the card with pairs of perforat'ions ll, as shown in Fig. 4, through Which perforations the legs of the loops are passed and the ends 7 then bent over at right angles, as in the form shown in Fig. 3, or I may form the entire series of loops 5 or 6 of a single piece of Wire appropriately bent, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. In Fig. 5 the Wire is bent into a series of loops 5, spaced and shaped to pass through slots 3 in the card, with connecting branches 7', which engage the under side of the card and limit the projection of the loops above the face of the card, as in the forms before described. In Fig. 6 the series of loops 5 is formed of one piece of material,

with connecting branches 7 arranged to rest upon and be secured in any suitable manner to the face of the card, the slots 3 or perforations l1 being unnecessary in this instance. I am not limited, however, to the use of loops formed in the manner shown and described, but may use any form of loop or holder made in any manner or of any material adapted to the purposes of my invention. Likewise I am not limited to the prismatic stop-stri ps shown in Figs. l, 2, and 7, but may use any other forms of stops, especially when they serve at the same time as spacing-blocks for packing the cards for shipment.

Each article may have an individual stop at each end, and in Fig. 8 I have shown a few of the many possible forms by Way of illustration.

Each individual stop may be made of a tongue 8', cut from the material of the card and bent up at right angles to the face of the latter, or it may be a tongue 82, made separately and glued at one end to the face of the card or otherwise fastened thereto and bent upwardly at right angles. Still another of the many forms of stops that I may use may consist of a strip 83, fast on the card and provided With suitably-spaced tongues 84, that are bent up, as shown.-

It will also be clear that if the display-card is designed to be normally set up in such manner as to have the articles mounted thereon extend vertically or in a plane inclined to the vertical there need only be used the fixed bottom stop or stops, and the removable stop or stops may be dispensed with altogether When the card is set up for displaying the articles. It Will be seen, therefore, that the details of construction of the improved display-card may be variously modiiied Without departing from my invention, it being only necessary that the articles be held in place on the card Without injurious pressure and be easily inserted into and removed from the holding devices and that there be spacing devices for holding the cards apart for stacking for shipment.

Having now fully described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A display-card for pencils and penholders, provided With loops or holders of such size as to hold the articles loosely and without pressure and stops for each end of the articles Vmounted on the card, substantially as described.

2. A display-card for pencils and `penholders, provided with loops or holders for loosely holding the articles, a fixed stop or stops at one end of the articles and one or more removable or replaceable stops mounted on the card, at the other end of the articles, substantially as described.

3. A display-card for pencils and penholders, provided with loops or holders for loosely holding the articles, and stops, at each end of the articles, of greater height than the projection of the articles above the face of the card, substantially as described.

4C. A display-card for pencils and penholders, provided with holding devices for the articles, comprising elastic U-shaped springloops, sprung into slots in the card, so as to project above the face thereof, substantially as described.

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5. Adisplay-eard foraseres of pencils and In testimony whereof I have signed my penholders, provided With loops or holders name to this specification in the presence of for the articles7 a fixed stop eoextensve with two subscribing Witnesses.

the series, at one end of the articles, and a BYRON B. GOLDSMITH. 5 removable stop mounted on the card coex- Witnesses:

tensive With the series, at the other end of U. BRAIM,

the articles, substantially as described. J. WEHLE. 

